Death toll nears treble figures in Indonesian L100-30 airbase crash

摘要

At least 98 people were killed when this Lockheed L100-30 operated by the Indonesian military crashed while preparing to land at Iswahyudi airbase in Mag-etan regency about 160km (85nm) from Yogyakarta in east Java on 20 May. The death toll included some people on the ground when the aircraft (A-1325) and carrying 98 passengers and 14 crew, crashed into a paddy field and low-rise brick buildings next to a forest and came to rest upside down. The aircraft's main fuselage was gutted by fire.